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The Sinless Child: And Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
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To poetry - sincere and beautiful poetry - and writing very agreeable prose, too, at a pinch - witness her little roguish stories about Uncle Zeke, and others - always picturing what she sees with uncommon sprightliness and truth, one would'nt much wonder, perhaps, to find the character of Major Downing himself, the joint.
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Bertha And Lily; Or The Parsonage Of Beech Glen: A Romance
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Elizabeth Oakes Smith was an American author, lecturer, and reformer. Her work Bald Eagle was one of the best sellers in her time.
Background
She was born on August 12, 1806 at North Yarmouth, Maine, United States, the second daughter of David and Sophia (Blanchard) Prince. On her father's side she was a descendant of John Prince, who was in Watertown, Massachussets, before 1633; Thomas Prince, the colonial chronicler of New England, was a member of the same family. Her ancestors on her mother's side were French Huguenots, and her grandfather was a prosperous ship owner in the East India trade.
Her early childhood was dominated by strong religious discipline, against which she later rebelled. After her father's death her mother remarried, and in 1814, the family moved to Portland.
Career
During the panic of 1837 she and her husband moved in 1839 to Charleston, South Carolina, where he hoped to sell cotton-cleaning machines to planters. The venture failing, they went after a short time to New York, where they lived until 1860.
To assist her husband Mrs. Oakes Smith, as she was known, contributed sketches, essays, and poems to such popular periodicals of the day as the Ladies' Companion, the Southern Literary Messenger, Godey's Lady's Book, and Graham's American Monthly Magazine. One Wordsworthian poem, The Sinless Child (1843), evoked surprisingly laudatory comment from such critics as Edgar Allan Poe and Rufus Wilmot Griswold.
Her interest in the supernatural is revealed in The Salamander, A Legend for Christmas (1848); Bertha and Lily (1854), The Newsboy (1854).
A considerable amount of her work appeared under the name Ernest Helfenstein. Some articles on woman's suffrage written for the New York Tribune in 1850 led her into lyceum lecturing, 1851-57, at which she was very successful. In 1851 these articles were published, with some of her speeches, as Woman and Her Needs, a plea for the recognition of the abilities of women. Her autobiography, part of which has been published as Selections from the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1924), is filled with personal observations and anecdotes of the leading figures of public life before the Civil War.
Because of the illness of Seba Smith the family moved about 1860 to Patchogue, Long Island. After his death in 1868, Mrs. Oakes Smith lived much of the time with her eldest son in Hollywood. In 1877 she became for a year pastor of the Independent Church at Canastota, New York.
She died in North Carolina.
Achievements
Elizabeth Smith was famous as the author of the poem "The Sinless Child", her reputation today rests on her feminist writings, including "Woman and Her Needs, " that argued for women’s spiritual and intellectual capacities as well as women’s equal rights to political and economic opportunities, including rights of franchise and higher education. She edited several annuals or Christmas gift books, had two plays produced, and wrote seven novels, in addition to numerous didactic books for children.
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Connections
She married, March 6, 1823, Seba Smith, editor of the Eastern Argus. Her husband had her admiration and respect, but there is a pathos in her statement that he was "nearly twice my age, wore spectacles, and was very bald. " They had five sons. Apropos of her lack of daughters she once said, "Mr. Smith rather prefers boys, " but her autobiography reveals that, too well aware of the limitations imposed on women, she was secretly glad not to produce daughters. During the early years of her marriage she devoted her energies chiefly to her home and young children.
Her children bore the name Oaksmith, the change having been made legally in their childhood.
